Why the study?
Medication literacy and medication adherence are suboptimal among hypertensive patients in China, and medication literacy could affect adherence to antihypertensive drugs.
Is medication literacy associated with medication adherence in patients with hypertension?
Is medication literacy associated with medication adherence in patients with hypertension?
Improving medication literacy, particularly in attitude and behavior domains, may facilitate optimal medication adherence and blood pressure control in hypertensive patients.
The levels of medication literacy and medication adherence of hypertensive patients are suboptimal and need to be improved in China. The level of medication literacy in patients with hypertension could affect their adherence to antihypertensive drugs. It was suggested that hypertensive patients' medication adherence could be improved and driven by increasing the medication literacy level, especially in the attitude and behavior domains. Pertinent strategies that are specific to several dimensions of medication literacy should be developed and implemented in order to promote full medication literacy among hypertensive patients, thus facilitating optimal adherence and blood pressure control.
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Shi et al. (2019) studied this question.
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